6. WALL-E

Name: WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth Class)

From: the film WALL.E by Pixar Animation Studios, distributed by Walt Disney Films

Height:

Made by: Bullyland

Markings:

Where/when did I get him: a toy store in the airport in Berlin August 2009.

5. Princess Aurora

Name: Princess Aurora. Also known as Briar-Rose

From: The film Sleeping Beauty produced by Walt Disney and distributed by Buena Vista Films

Height:

Made by: Not known

Where/when did I get her: Princess Aurora is part of a 7 piece Sleeping Beauty playset purchased from the Disney Store in Chester, England in March 2009.


Markings:
(c) Disney
China

History: Sleeping Beauty was released by Walt Disney in 1959 and is based on the French fairytale "La Belle au bois dormant" by Charles Perrault.

The Disney Store's playset figurines are a bit disappointing in their quality and are nothing like the quality of the figurines that they sold in the 1990s and early 2000s. The type of plastic used is more flimsy and bendable. The paintwork is average and the skin tones are wrong. I used to love going to the Disney Store and buying the figurines that they sold singularly. They don't sell them like that anymore and the only ones you can get are in the playsets. They are not individually hallmarked or date-stamped, which makes them seem even cheaper and less collectable. I don't think I will be buying any more of the Disney Store playsets.

4. Dumbo Jnr. and Timothy Q Mouse

From: the film Dumbo produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures

Height: Approx 5.2cm

Made by: Bully

Markings:
(c) 1987 THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY
CE
BULLY
GERMANY

Where/When did I get him: from a toy store in the airport at Berlin in August 2009

History: The Dumbo movie was released in 1941 and was the fourth film of the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It is based on a book by Helen Aberson.  The figure is based off the original animation, which has been remastered, but never remade by Disney since the 1941 film.

3. Scrat

Name: Scrat or The Scrat

From: Ice Age - Dawn of the Dinosaurs, produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox

Made by: The Promotions Factory

Height:

Markings:
(c) 2009 Fox
tpf.com.au
CHINA
SCRAT

Where/When did I get him: off Ebay in 2009

2. Yogi Bear

Name: Yogi Bear

From: Hanna-Barbera Productions

Height:

Made by: Artoy England

Markings:
(c) HANNA-BARBERA PROD INC
ARTOY - ENGLAND
C E
CHINA

Where/When did I get him: from a store in Notting Hill called Mimi Fifi in March 2010.


History: Yogi Bear made his first appearance as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show in 1958. In 1961 he was given his own show The Yogi Bear Show sponsored by Kellogg's. A live-action/CGI Yogi Bear movie is due to be released in December 2010, starring Dan Aykroyd as Yogi and Justin Timberlake as Boo Boo.

1. Speedy Gonzalez

Name: Speedy Gonzalez - "the Fastest Mouse in all Mexico"

From: Warner Bros. Looney Tunes

Height: Approx 5.8cm

Made by: Bullyland

Markings: (c) 1998 WARNER BROS. BULLYLAND
MADE IN CHINA

Where/When did I get him: from a toy store in Rome called Pinnocchio in 2009.

History: Speedy first appeared in a 1953 cartoon Cat-Tails for Two directed by Robert McKimson. The original Speedy was redesigned in 1955 and he appeared in his current form in the cartoon Speedy Gonzalez where he saved a group of mice protecting a cheese factory on the Mexican border from Sylvester the Cat, spurred on by the catch-cry "Andale! Andale! Ariba Ariba!" (Spanish for "Go on! Go on! Up! Up!") The cartoon won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) in 1955. Speedy was subsequently set up as Sylvester's regular nemesis.